Word: barkleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gravely, before a packed, worried Senate, Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley opened his package of dynamite. "I ask the privilege," he began, "of making a statement at this time about a matter which involves the highest privilege of the Senate and the highest personal privilege of a Member of the Senate...
Thereupon Senator Barkley proceeded to announce that the Department of Justice had completely exonerated Senator Walsh of the Post's charges that he frequented a Brooklyn "house of degradation" which was also a hangout for Nazi spies, a place where sailors were lured by drink to tell military secrets. Senator Barkley did not then or later give out the FBI 25-page report. He said it was too "disgusting and unprintable." He contented himself with declaring flatly that the whole "weird and fantastic story" was a case of mistaken identity: the man called Senator Walsh by the Post...
...Post stories) all the rest of the U.S. press, afraid of libel and shrinking from dirt, avoided the story like the plague. The Senate tiptoed about, unwilling to face the fact that accusations of the worst kind had been publicly leveled at one of its members. Senator Barkley last week offered an excuse: when Senator Walsh came to him, "visibly agitated," he advised him to sit tight until the FBI could be got to make a private report...
...Senator Barkley trumpeted: "I do not propose to be cowed . . . intimidated. . . . Our constituents ought to send some honest men here if we cannot be trusted to buy only the gasoline we need in the performance of our duties...
...rose Majority Leader Barkley in the midst of the 40-hour-week hullabaloo in Congress. He told his colleagues their hysteria was needless. The critical mail pouring into Washington had been inspired by old enemies of the New Deal. The motive: to destroy New Deal labor laws. The "grass roots" uprising in the South was an organized campaign. Congressmen bellowing about the 40-hour week had better go home, talk to the voters...